COSMOS - RFP Questions and Answers 12.05.2024.pdf

Contract for Organizing Spaceflight Mission Operations and Systems (COSMOS) Final RFP Q&A – December 05, 2024

Category Section Page Number

Type Question/Comment Response

115 Section L Proposal Instructions

Section L, Table L-1;

Answers to Question s 11-22- 2024, Question 9, 43

L-13;

Question 9, Clarity Table L-1 specifies in the Format column that Volume I must be submitted as a MS Word document.

Additionally, the Govenrment clarified in the answer to Question 9 that Offerors must provide a DD 254 with Offeror information completed. Finally, in question 43, the Govenrment indicated that it could not provide an alternate format.

Please confirm that Offerors may complete the Offeror information in the PDF version of the DD254 and return that PDF as an attachment to its Volume I submission. The Government-provided DD254 cannot be converted to MS Word as-is and retain its form and Government signatures.

Yes, Offerors shall complete and return the DD254 form in its Native Format.

The Government updated this requirement through Amendment 4 to the COSMOS

RFP.

The Model Contract has been provided in the COSMOS RFP as an Acrobat Adobe PDF file. Given the requirement to submit the Model Contract in MS Word format will the Government provide a copy of Model Contract A-K in MS Word to ensure consistency of the document by all Offerors? Conversion of the Adobe Model Contract to MS Word is sometimes an inexact process and may result in different conversion documents.

No, The Government will not provide a MS Word Version of the Model Contract. In order to control and protect sensitive data owned by the Government and its Contractors, NASA policy requires all acquisition-related documents be released to the public in Adobe Portable Document Format (.pdf), except the Microsoft Excel documents.

Will NASA allow contractors to submit the Volume V Model Contract in pdf as it was provided in the solicitation

Offerors shall submit the Model Contract in MS Word in accordance with L.17

PROPOSAL

ARRANGEMENT,

PAGE

LIMITATIONS,

COPIES, AND

DUE DATES.

118 Section L Instructions

L.17 (b) Table L- 1 and L-

L-13 thru L-16 and L-54 thru L-55

Request for

Additiona l

Informati on

Amendment 2 released answer number 50 to a question regarding the requirement of Volume V Model Contract, Section J for "Offerors to submit the required documents", which the government stated the requirement would not modified. Question 1: Kindly request the government reconsider since these required documents will require review and final approval before they become final, which is consistent with the instructions of the prior solicitation (MSOC #NNJ16100117R) that read "not to include the DRD documents with the Model Contract as those would be

The Offeror shall submit the specified DRDs requested by the Government at proposal submission in their appropriate volumes listed in L- 17 detailed in table L-1. Per M.8 (b) the contracting incorporated into Section J of the contract upon approval by the Government as specificed in the DRD". Question 2: Should the Government desire not to modify the requirement, can the government please modify the Model Contract to include the missing placeholder cover pages (Per DRD) for DRD-

COSMOS-0004, DRD-COSMOS-0017, DRD-

COSMOS-0030, and DRD-COSMOS-0057. These DRDs required by Section J-17 to submit with the proposal but the Model Contract does not give them placeholder cover pages like the other required plans have. Question 3: If the government will not modify the Model Contract to provide the missing placeholder cover pages for these DRDs can Offerors place the proposed document/plan immediate after the corresponding DRD requirements in Section J-17 within the Model Contract for submission?

officer will incorporate all DRD responses into the model contract.